It's just random variation. Depending on the time of day, you need maybe 4 or 5 upvotes to make the front page and escape the /newest ghetto; but there's not much traffic on /newest so it's very easy for articles to not escape one time even if they escape the other time.
It is fine really - I wonder if there was more than random to it. Anyways, now I have attracted downvotes for my initial comment. Kind of surprised at that too! :)
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It's just random variation. Depending on the time of day, you need maybe 4 or 5 upvotes to make the front page and escape the /newest ghetto; but there's not much traffic on /newest so it's very easy for articles to not escape one time even if they escape the other time.
It is fine really - I wonder if there was more than random to it. Anyways, now I have attracted downvotes for my initial comment. Kind of surprised at that too! :)